Conference on Language Modeling

Call for papers -- due March 31, 2026 (abstracts due March 26) colmweb.org/cfp.html Call for workshops -- due April 14, 2026 colmweb.org/cfw.html

T-40 minutes until the opening session for the third installment of COLM, the biggest COLM ever! Be sure to attend to hear about the outstanding papers, and then we'll go right into our first keynote (@chelseafinn.bsky.social ) and first set of oral presentations!

Coming to COLM next week? The schedule is live at colm.eventhosts.cc/virtual/2026... 5 invited talks, a panel discussion, 24 orals, and 856 posters await! This llama will need plenty of coffee to see all that...

We released tickets to our waiting list (as of yesterday). If you were on the wait list, please check your email. Tickets that are not claimed will be re-distributed. The wait list remains open, so sign up if interested

We moved to colm.cc Our old website will forward you automatically, so don't stress 😅 The archives of 2024 and 2025 are linked from the new website

The first batch of tickets will be released TODAY (Aug 10) at 1pm PT (pacific time). We are fairly certain we will be able to release more later on, so if tickets run out, we will direct people to a wait list (sign up if interested) colm.eventhosts.cc/register

We are delaying general registration to Aug 10 to carefully manage author registration and make sure that all authors (main + workshops) get to register. We appreciate the patience

📢 New blog post describing the COLM 2026 PCs’ analyses of AI use in submitted papers. gregdurrett.github.io/colm2026-blo... (temporary home, new COLM website coming soon!)

Camera ready deadline is Aug 8! Also, financial assistance form is up: forms.gle/HhXhv8ND38X1... Deadline is July 31 Author registration is ongoing (authors, get on it!) Non-author registration will follow up in (very) early August

COLM 2026 will host 16(!) workshops: colmweb.org/workshops.html CFPs are all online, and deadlines are coming up, so check the CFP of your workshops of interest

The discussion period for COLM 2026 is underway! We're sharing a CDF of average review scores. Note that final decisions will reflect deliberation by ACs and PCs, so these are only meant to be a heuristic guideline to give you a sense of where your papers stand. Good luck!

❗The full paper submission deadline for COLM is ~14 hours from now (11:59pm AOE)! Please submit your final PDFs on the same page where you uploaded your abstracts. And please use the provided LaTeX templates; do not handwrite your manuscript like this llama is! Good luck!

~45 hours until the abstract deadline! Submit abstracts on OpenReview by 3/26 11:59pm AOE, full papers 3/31. Final reminders & submission instructions for COLM are below. Note that as of the March 31 deadline, papers must not be under review for ICML or committed to ACL colmweb.org/submission-i...

The COLM abstract deadline is approaching fast --> March 26! Full paper deadline is March 31 Verify using the COLM template (and font!) to avoid silly desk rejections. Careful of copy-pasting from other venue submissions, because it often overrides our template

We have a mailing list for big announcements: groups.google.com/g/colm-annou... We use it very sparingly, roughly 1-2 times a year

COLM 2026 is just around the corner! Mark your calendars for: 💡 Abstract deadline: Thursday, March 26, 2026 📄 Full paper submission deadline: Tuesday, March 31, 2026 Call for papers (website coming soon): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

COLM is going to San Francisco for 2026! 🗓️Dates: October 6-9, 2026 🏨Venue: Hilton San Francisco Union Square Website and CFPs for papers and workshops coming up soon!

COLM is on! Opening remarks: docs.google.com/presentation...

My feed is on 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Can't wait to meet you all It's C-11 hours!

Here’s a #COLM2025 feed! Pin it 📌 to follow along with the conference this week!

Blue sky all the way. @colmweb.org C day -1

Also, if you're at COLM, come to Gillian's keynote and find out what our lab is working on!

My registration site is down... working on it!

Our complete program schedule is now online (and in Whova): colmweb.org/schedule.html

Keynote spotlight #5: the third of COLM (and last day of the main conference) will open with a keynote by Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic)

Keynote spotlight #4: the second day of COLM will close with @ghadfield.bsky.social from JHU talking about human society alignment, and lessons for AI alignment

As we are spotlighting these last few days, let's also spotlight the spotlights. COLM 2025 has 24 spotlight papers that will be presented as plenary orals 👏

Keynote spotlight #3: COLM's second day will open with some *real* intelligence 🧠🧠🧠 with Tom Griffiths from Princeton

Keynote spotlight #2: COLM's first-day afternoon session will go polymathic 🔭 with Shirley Ho 🌌 from the Flatiron Institute

Keynote spotlight #1: COLM will open on Oct 7 with a keynote by @lukezettlemoyer.bsky.social about mixed-modals models 🌈

We are excited to welcome @qveraliao.bsky.social to the ORIGen workshop at @colmweb.org for her invited talk "Facilitating Appropriate Reliance on AI: Lessons from HCI Research"! October 10 at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal!

We are excited to welcome @andreasvlachos.bsky.social to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for his invited talk "Toward Constructive Conversations"! #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

We are excited to welcome Bertram F. Malle of Brown University to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for his invited talk "Could Generative Language Models Have Moral Trustworthiness?" #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

COLM 2025 accepted submissions are now public: openreview.net/group?id=col... Congratulations to all the authors, and see you all in Montreal!

The draft programme and list of accepted papers at ORIGen 2025 @ @colmweb.org is now available! We look forward to an excellent workshop in October! #AI #NLP #LLMs

Authors, your camera ready is due today!

Several application deadlines tomorrow (July 31!): financial assistance, volunteers, and childcare financial assistance. Also, we are proud to announce the COLM Children's Program -- our affordable (and fun!) program for children All linked from colmweb.org

COLM 2025 is now accepting applications for: Financial Assistance Application -- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Volunteer Application -- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Childcare Financial Assistance Application -- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... All due by July 31

The list of accepted papers for COLM 2025 is now available here: colmweb.org/AcceptedPape... The papers will be made available around mid August, following the camera ready deadline

The ORIGen workshop @colmweb.org is accepting late-breaking submissions until July 14!

@colmweb.org decisions are out, and so are we The strength of submissions this year amazed us! Many many hard decisions 😩 + Aditi, @eunsol.bsky.social , @ranjaykrishna.bsky.social 😴😴😴

Delighted that ✨Mor Geva (@megamor2.bsky.social) and ✨Anna Ivanova (@neuranna.bsky.social) will complete our speaker line-up and talk about the INTERPLAY of model internals and behavior. Be there and submit by June 30th 📄 shorturl.at/sBomu See you in 🇨🇦 @colmweb.org #nlproc #interpretability

We extended the deadline so submissions to ORIGen at @colmweb.org are still due in one week! Submit by June 27! See you in 🇨🇦 #AI #NLP #LLMs